From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 58299
Date: 2008-05-03
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From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
To: "fournet.arnaud" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2008 5:17 AM
Subject: Re[2]: [tied] Re: beyond langauges
> At 8:21:00 AM on Friday, May 2, 2008, fournet.arnaud wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> There is no indication vetulus ever was **veklus in
>> pre-French Romance.
>
> This is a well-known Late Latin development: when unstressed
> penultimate vowels were lost between /t/ and /l/, the
> resulting /tl/ was replaced by /kl/. Note 'vetulus non
> veclus and 'vitulus non viclus' (Appendix Probi).
>
> Brian
>
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I can see no traces in Old French of that.
I'm not denying the existence of this process in Late LAtin,
I'm stating that it does not show in Old French
but maybe you have a word that proves it.
How do you prove this change happened
on the basic of Old French alone ?
Arnaud
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